WATCH: Rebecca Mead and Jia Tolentino on Identity, Nationality, and Inheritance

WATCH: Rebecca Mead and Jia Tolentino on Identity, Nationality, and Inheritance

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By The Virtual Book Channel | March 10, 2022

Why We Should Read About the Soviet Past In Order to Understand Ukraine Now

Why We Should Read About the Soviet Past In Order to Understand Ukraine Now

Sofi Oksanen Recommends Books With an Eastern European Perspective

By Sofi Oksanen | March 9, 2022

What Makes a Great Opening Line?

What Makes a Great Opening Line?

Allegra Hyde Considers Love at First Sentence

By Allegra Hyde | March 9, 2022

The Power—and Necessity—of Reading Dangerously

The Power—and Necessity—of Reading Dangerously

Azar Nafisi on Engaging with Opposition

By Azar Nafisi | March 9, 2022

How Trees Helped Ben Okri To Write His New Children’s Book

How Trees Helped Ben Okri To Write His New Children’s Book

“As the story grew, I felt the need for nature.”

By Ben Okri | March 9, 2022

How Campus Novels Reveal the Power—and Danger—of Pure Ideas

How Campus Novels Reveal the Power—and Danger—of Pure Ideas

Tara Isabella Burton on the Combination of Isolation, Vulnerability, and Hunger for Knowledge

By Tara Isabella Burton | March 9, 2022

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Sexism Wants Women to Think We’re Stupid—and We Believe It

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Kevin Barry on Flowers in the Attic, 2666, and The Talented Mr. Ripley

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It turns out Drake has very good taste in books.

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How Ukrainian Writers Are Contributing to the War Effort

How Ukrainian Writers Are Contributing to the War Effort

Kate Tsurkan Reports from Chernivtsi

By Kate Tsurkan | March 8, 2022

What Comes After “Kmart Realism”? Writing Place in the Era of American Uniformity

What Comes After “Kmart Realism”? Writing Place in the Era of American Uniformity

Lee Cole on the Homogenization of Rural Life in America

By Lee Cole | March 8, 2022

Imagining the Many Futures—and Complex Humanity—of the Archetypal Missing Girl

Imagining the Many Futures—and Complex Humanity—of the Archetypal Missing Girl

Erin Kate Ryan on the Real Person Behind the Missingness

By Erin Kate Ryan | March 8, 2022

Why Are So Many Men Still Resistant to Reading Women?

Why Are So Many Men Still Resistant to Reading Women?

Mary Ann Sieghart Considers the Literary Gender Gap

By Mary Ann Sieghart | March 8, 2022

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

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By Teddy Wayne | March 8, 2022

Lee Kravetz on Sylvia Plath, 1950s Psychiatry, and Confessional Poets

Lee Kravetz on Sylvia Plath, 1950s Psychiatry, and Confessional Poets

The Author of The Last Confessions of Sylvia P. Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | March 8, 2022

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